Spectrum Group Management, an alternative investment firm focused in the distressed, special situations and asset based credit markets, has appointed Dee Trussell as director of business development and Steven LaDew as director of fund accounting and reporting.
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Gottex Fund Management, an alternative asset management group, has hired Debra Rothman as managing director, head of North American sales and marketing, and Mark Oestergaard as marketing director in Europe.
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Shaking off the frustrating association of blame for the global financial crisis, equity derivatives in Europe are now attracting buy-side traders who have been struggling with laggard volumes, fragmentation in the cash markets and the need for new avenues of alpha.
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